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Reflecting a broader trend of Microsoft embracing Claude AI, recent VS Code updates show the company accommodating Claude Code beyond model selection, with support for Claude-specific instruction files, rules, agents, skills, hooks and plugin conventions.
05/04/2026
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Microsoft's WinUI 3 Gallery 2.9 gives developers a working reference app for trying Windows App SDK 2.0 controls, APIs and improvements without starting a new project.
05/01/2026
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of quadratic regression, implemented from scratch, with pseudo-inverse training, using the C# language. Compared to standard linear regression, quadratic regression is better able to handle data with a non-linear structure and interactions between predictor variables. Compared to other types of training, pseudo-inverse does not require any parameters that must be determined by trial and error.
05/01/2026
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Just two days after GitHub announced usage-based billing for Copilot, Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.118 -- under its new weekly release cadence -- with significant token efficiency improvements designed to keep costs down when the meter starts running June 1.
04/30/2026
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Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions infrastructure while the developer moves on, is a meaningfully different way to use AI assistance.
04/29/2026
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The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.
04/28/2026
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, prompting user concerns about predictability, model access, monthly credit limits and whether unchanged plan prices will translate into less included usage.
04/27/2026
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VS Code 1.117 adds bring-your-own model key support for Copilot Business and Enterprise users and introduces a set of chat, agent, terminal, and TypeScript updates.
04/23/2026
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Q&A
Microsoft's Data API Builder is designed to help developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building a full data access layer from scratch. In this Q&A, Steve Jones previews his upcoming Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2026 session on how teams can use the tool with SQL Server and PostgreSQL to accelerate app development.
04/23/2026
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Microsoft's new move to ship Azure MCP tools inside Visual Studio 2022 adds to a small but notable pattern of selected Visual Studio 2026-era functionality later showing up in the older IDE, led by a cluster of MCP management features and, outside the MCP category, the Copilot Profiler Agent.
04/22/2026
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Microsoft says the beta is production-ready for many day-to-day workflows and CI pipelines.
04/21/2026
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Remember when you had to really dig in concentrate and understand exactly how C# and other code worked at the most basic levels? Then you'll like Microsoft's early preview of .NET 11.
04/20/2026
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At VSLive! Las Vegas, Mads Kristensen revealed Visual Studio 2027 as part of a broader shift toward AI-assisted development and a more continuous release cadence for Microsoft's flagship IDE.
04/17/2026
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Now shipping in the VS Code Insiders build, Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code Agents preview offers an early look at a separate companion app for agent sessions, approvals, workspace discovery, and supervised review loops.
04/16/2026
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Amber Vanderburg discusses how engineering leaders can spot and fix the “silent bugs” in team dynamics before they turn into bigger delivery problems.
04/16/2026
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Across the April 8 and April 15, 2026 releases, Visual Studio Code expanded its agent-focused tooling with a new companion app, better terminal interaction, session debugging and more built-in Copilot functionality.
04/16/2026
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Christian Wenz explains why the Backends for Frontends (BFF) pattern is emerging as a more secure authentication model for single-page applications.
04/08/2026
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In-Depth
A proof of concept used OpenClaw's localhost dashboard inside VS Code's integrated browser to compare it directly with Copilot on the same SKILL.md file, finding that OpenClaw delivered broader, more redesign-oriented analysis while Copilot focused on narrower, maintenance-minded fixes.
04/06/2026
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Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel foundations, AutoGen orchestration concepts, and stable APIs for .NET and Python.
04/06/2026
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In a new video, Mads Kristensen walked through 10 extensions and updates aimed at common developer requests, spanning workspace modes, comment handling, scratch files, Markdown linting, CSV editing, Azure resource access and even animated pets.
04/03/2026
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OpenClaw's Node for VS Code extension proved it can support a real local file-based workflow, but on Windows the experience still feels more like early infrastructure than finished tooling.
04/03/2026
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Omar Shahine's new Microsoft role focused on bringing OpenClaw and personal agents to Microsoft 365 adds weight to the workplace-assistant story for the open-source AI framework, even as its current VS Code tooling remains early, gateway-centric, and only lightly connected to Microsoft's primary developer environments.
04/02/2026
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A smaller weekly VS Code release adds chat workflow refinements, semantic search changes, TypeScript 6.0, and new admin controls.
04/02/2026
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using JavaScript. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric value. For simplicity and better maintenance, the demo implementation uses list storage instead of pointers. For better customization and interpretability, the implementation uses list iteration instead of recursion or a stack algorithm.
04/01/2026
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In-Depth
What happens when a self-hosted space lobster tries to work in Visual Studio 2026? OpenClaw finds terminal access, project insight, and just enough routing weirdness to send a message to itself instead of editing code -- which, honestly, is not not on-brand.
04/01/2026
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A quick hands-on proof of concept shows how Visual Studio's new custom-agent framework can be aimed at a real Blazor project, along with what else is new in the March update.
03/31/2026
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Microsoft's VS Code 1.113 release packages a range of smaller updates across agent experience, chat experience, and editor experience, arriving as the company shifts the editor to a weekly release cadence that the team says has been accelerated by its internal use of AI.
03/27/2026